Mind Flush

Both of my parents were artists, whether they got paid for it or not. My dad earned extra money doing lettering and pinstriping on boat tran...

Them: "So where does she go to school?" Me: "Menlo Park Academy.  It's a community school for gifted kids in the Westpar...

Post A: discusses an article on inappropriately sexy children's clothes called  "Parents, don't dress your girls like tramps...

No, not a really big one of these: I'm talking about this: She developed the plot, characters, and dialog.  I helped with spelling, sh...

My daughter is watching a rerun of the Punkin Chunkin special on tv and trying to explain the difference between a trebouchet and a catapult...

I had to bodily remove her from the car because she was so entranced in this book that she wouldn't stop reading long enough to get out ...

She saw me writing limericks and wanted to write a poem of her own, and this is what she came up with. At least it was easier for me to hel...

(Liza drew the pictures, did the title page, and narrated the story; I wrote down what she told me so it didn't take 6 months to complet...

When I suggested the other day during our homeschooling work that she could practice her handwriting, she said, "Sure! I'll write ...

Liza had a hard day today, what with having to gleefully watch my podiatrist relieve me of gallons of blood through the bottom of my right f...

So, in between all the gore and knitting , my kid managed to complete the last of five Hooked On Phonics sets, which means that she's no...

This past week was Liza's spring break from preschool, a time when all of her playmates were out of town and all of the play areas and m...

Today at the natural history museum, Liza: 1. Journaled about the favorite animals she saw, including polar bears, caribou, and otters. Tha...

1, 2, 3, 4, 5: Liza made this for me (with no help from me or Jason) while I was fixing dinner. Why yes, thank you for asking, the blue thin...

1. Liza's first encounter with antibiotics (thanks to a completely random strep infection that manifested itself as a sore stomach and a...

Sorry to go MIA, folks. Not dead or institutionalized, just leading a life that is mindnumbingly un-blog-worthy. Rather than bore you with t...

1. When Liza's preschool teachers tell me that they would recommend that I put her in the "advanced" pre-K/not-quite-kinderg...

"This is the sky, and this is the sun. This is the deck, and the grass. This is a little squirrel hopping along, and see this red stuff...

The sun came out this afternoon, and the combination of the afternoon sun and all the light reflected from the 2" of snow we got last n...

So, after completing the first lesson in the "big girl" Hooked on Phonics set earlier today, my daughter can officially read most ...